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Industry veteran joins Sun Pacific Marketing

California citrus grower-shipper Sun Pacific Marketing has hired a sales veteran to lead its business development.

Working 23 years in the produce industry, Scott Harrington joins the Pasadena, Calif.-based Sun Pacific as its director of business development.

Harrington previously worked as senior vice president of Los Angeles-based HerbThyme Farms Inc.; as sales director for Watsonville, Calif.-based Monterey Mushrooms Inc.; and, most recently, as vice president of business development for Irwindale, Calif.-based Ready Pac Foods Inc.

At Sun Pacific, Harrington will be responsible for focusing on developing new business for Sun Pacific’s portfolio of products, according to a news release.

Harrington will report to Bob DiPiazza, Sun Pacific’s president.

“We are pleased and excited to have Scott on board, and we welcome his wealth of experience as we develop new channels of business for our products,” DiPiazza said in the release.

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Doug Ohlemeier, who has written for The Packer since 2001, serves as eastern editor, a position he has held since August 2006. He started at The Packer as a staff writer after working for nearly a decade in commodity promotion at the Kansas Wheat Commission, where he was a marketing specialist.
Doug worked in radio and television news writing, producing and reporting for seven years in Texas, Missouri and Nebraska.
He graduated from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, in 1984, with a bachelor of science degree in broadcast journalism and a minor in history. He earned a master’s in corporate communications from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, in 1991. In college, he served as a news editor of the daily O’Collegian newspaper and interned in radio and television news departments.